Performing Day 2 operations using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager APIs

After you have successfully installed or imported products, you can use the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager APIs to perform Day 2 operations.

As with any product installation, to perform Day 2 operations, you must have a MyVMware account. The licenses, certificates, and products that you can update are associated with your MyVMware account.

For the vRealize Suite products and versions that you can update, see Creating an Environment.

Prerequisites for Day 2 Operations

All Day 2 operations include the following common prerequisites:

  • Verify that the appliance name and fully qualified domain name of the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager instance are available.
  • Verify that the URL variable is assigned.
    url='https://LCM-Hostname'
Some tasks also include a prerequisite to obtain your environment ID and product ID. To find the environment ID and assign the environmentId and productId variables, perform the following steps.
  1. List all environment IDs.
    curl -X GET \
  '$url/lcm/lcops/api/v2/environments' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW5AbG9jYWw6VGhpc0lzUGFzc3dvcmQ=' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 | jq "."
  2. Examine the response to locate your environment ID as in the following example that includes a product ID for vRealize Automation. 
    ...  
  {
    "environmentId": "dc902745-8232-4820-9479-6921edb86cf7",
    "environmentName": "vRS Example Environment",
    ...
    },
    "products": [
      {
        "id": "vra",
        "version": "8.0.1",
        "patchHistory": null,
        "snapshotHistory": null,
        "logHistory": null,
        "clusterVIP": null,
...
  3. Assign variables for the the environment ID variable and product ID.
    environmentId = "dc902745-8232-4820-9479-6921edb86cf7"
productId = "vra"

Any additional prerequisites are specified with the individual tasks.